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Help us test a new digital artwork

We have commissioned Clemence Debaig of Unwired Studio to create a series of Augmented Reality Murals around town. The aim is to engage audiences around Bedford’s heritage, as well as the murals themselves, through digital and playable experiences. We are looking for participants to help us test the experience before it is released to the…

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New faces at BCA

Over the last couple of months, we’ve had a new staff member join the team and two people join our board. Introducing our new projects assistant, Georgia Goodman! We are utterly delighted that Georgia will be working with us for the next two years as our new projects assistant. Georgia has been studying Visual Arts…

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Celebrating Windrush 75th Anniversary

Bedford marks 75 years of Windrush legacy Bedford Creative Arts are working in partnership with Legacy of Windrush Descendants and Friends (LOWD), to honour the 75th Anniversary of Windrush. LOWD’s events aim to highlight the contributions made by the Windrush generations with most of the focus being on Bedford.  In 1948, Britain was beginning to…

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Teasing Out Contingencies at The Higgins Bedford

Militant ‘punk’ artist Quilla Constance brings a new large-scale exhibition to The Higgins in Bedford Artist Quilla Constance (also known as QC) will showcase eight new large-scale oil paintings and a costume-installation at The Higgins Bedford for her solo exhibition Teasing Out Contingencies. The exhibition opens on June 17 and will run until January 7,…

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Take Part Queen’s Park: Lockdown Art Packs

During Lockdowns, when we weren’t able to engage people in the community with the wider Take Part project, we worked with schools in Queen’s Park to provide free art packs to children at home who might not otherwise have access to even basic art materials.  Between July – December 2020 we provided 448 art packs to students on Pupil Premium at three schools in Bedford (Queens Park…

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Dance Beds: Social Impact of ‘800 Lifetimes’

‘800 Lifetimes’ is a 45-minute contemporary dance, sound and voice performance produced and performed by Pell Ensemble. Created with local communities and inspired by modern myth-making, ‘800 Lifetimes’, uses 360 sound technology Flowfal (a wearable app that allowed dancers to move and manipulate the sound in the space in real-time). The movements, material and words were…

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